Pipilotti Rist

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum will present an installation by Swiss video artist Pipilotti Rist on view from May 1 through October 10, 2005. An opening reception will be held on Sunday, May 1, 2005, from 4 to 6 pm. Round-trip transportation from NYC is available; please call the Museum at 203.438.4519 for reservations.

Known internationally for her innovation within the medium of video art, Rist’s videos posses a visual language all their own, filled with saturated colors, grainy or distorted images, and wide, sweeping motions through landscape and space. For The Aldrich, Rist will install Grabstein für RW, a gray tombstone strewn with maple leaves. At the center of the tombstone, a round video screen seen through a half-lens depicts the artist herself, lying in the grass, with her red tongue thrust out. Sexually charged and ethereal, Rist’s performance confronts the boundaries of two distinct states of being, the ghostly with the flesh.

Born in Switzerland in 1962, Pipilotti Rist lives and works in Zurich and Los Angeles. She studied graphic design and photography at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna, then video at the School for Design in Basel, and was the recipient of the Premio 2000 Prize at the Venice Biennale in 1997. She has mounted solo exhibitions at MUSAC, Centro Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon in Valladolid, Spain; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Centre of Contemporary Art in Warsaw; with an exhibition planned for Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, in 2006.

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